Traveling advertising device.



No. 828,634. PATENTED AUG. 14, 1906. W. L. D. WRIGHT.

TRAVELING ADVERTISING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAYL 1905.

lllllll lllll! WILLIAM L. n. WRIGHT, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

TRAVELING ADVERTISING Device.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 14, 1906.

. Application filed Mayl, 1905. Serial No. 258.765.

T0 rtll'whom it may concern:

Be it known that'LWrLLiAiu L. DWRIGHT, a citizen of the United States,and. a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the city and State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful Traveling Advertising Device, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in traveling advertising devices,and has for its object to provide certain improvements in theconstruction, form, and arrangement of the several parts of the devicewhereby chains which carry the advertising-sheets are more accuratelysupported and the advertising-sheets themselves are removably secured inposition by very simple and effective means which Wlll permit the shee sto be passed around the chain-carrying sprockets without danger oftearing or mutilating the sheets. I

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings, in which a Figure 1 represents a front view of myimproved traveling advertising device, portions of the same being brokenaway'to more clearly show the nterior structure thereof. Fig. 2 is ahorizontal section taken in the plane of the line A A of Fig. 1. lookingin the direction of the arrows. Fig-'3 is a trans verse verticalsection, on an enlarged scale, partially broken away. Fig. 4- representsenlarged detail views showing the upper and lower connections of thechains with the means for supporting them vertically and laterally. Fig.5 represents detail views showing the manner of securing the side edgeof a sheet to the means carried by the chains, in this View a fragmentonly of a sheet being shown and the front plate being entirely removed.Fig. 6 represents detail side views of ,portions of one of the back pates and its supporting-rod. Fig. 7 is a top plan .view of the same.Fig. 8 represents detail views of the upper and lower portions of one ofthe front plates; and Fig. 9 is a horizontal-sec.-

tion, on an enlarged scale showing the front late, a side'edge of anadvertising-sheet, the

ack plate, and the chain-attachin 'rod of the back plate, the partsbeing s own in their interlocked'position for clamping the sheet betweenthe two plates.

1 designates a frame or casing which may be made in sizes to suitdifferent requirements. The front and back of the frame may be madeopen, as shown, or may be provided with transparent panes, if so desred. An idler-roller 2 is mounted. near one end of the casing betweenthe top and bottom thereof, which roller is provided with. upper andlower sprockets 3 and 4, over which pass upper and loweradvertising-sheet-carrying chains 5 and 6. At theother end of the cas-'ing a drive-shaft 7 is mounted between the top and bottom thereof, whichshaft is provided with a roller R and upper and lower sprockets 9 and10, over which the chains 5 and 6 pass. A motor of .any desiredconstruction-such, for instance, as an electric motor 11 is utilized fordriving the chains at the desired speed. This motor 11 is herein shownas having a reducing-gear connection with the shaft 7.

In the present instance I have shown the chains 5 and 6 composed of aseries of double insertion of small rods therethrough.

The top of the casing is provided with front anu rear longitudinal.grooves 12 13 and the bottom of the casing with front and rear grooves14 15.

The chains are supported vertically and laterallyin the followingmanner: A plurality of vertically-disposed rods 16 are securedperrnanently to the upper and lower chains at the desired distancesapart along the same, and the upper ends of these rods are provided withantifrictionrollers 17, arranged to tra' -xel along in the upper grooves12 and 13. The lower ends of these rods are pro vided withantifriction-rollers 18, arranged 15. These rods 16 are also providedwith traction-wheels 19, which are fitted to travel along within thelower grooves Hand 15, but rest upon the bottoms of the said grooves.The advertisingsheets .are denoted by 20, and they are removably securedto the chains as follows A plurality of rods 21 are rcmovably attachedto the upper and lower chains by passing the upper ends of the rodsthrough the upper chain and the lower ends of the rod into the lowerchain; Intermediate the ends of these rods I permanently secure thereonback plates 22, which are provided with a wardly from their faces.

Front plates 24 are provided for clamping edges of theadvertising-sheets, and if two adacent sheets are to be attached to thechains the overlapping side edges of such sheets are links of such formthat they will permit the.

to travel along in the lower grooves 14 and plurality of hooks 23, whichproject outbetween them and the back plates the side IlO arranged to beclamped between one pair of front and back plates. These front platesare provided with slots 25, corresponding 'to the hooks 23 on the backplates, through which slots the hooks are inserted after the side edgesof the advertising-sheets have been inserted over the hooks. These hooks23 are arranged with their points projecting upwardly, so that there isno tendency of the front plates to jar loose after they have beeninterlocked with the back plates. These front andback plates are-curvedoutwardly when viewed in cross-section, so as to permit the plates andsheets attached thereto to be passed around the sprockets without dangerof putting an undue strain on the sheets, which would tend, to tear ordisplace them.

It will lie seen that by the improvements herein set forth I am enabledto provide means for securely fastening the advertisingsheets to thechains and yet at the same time permit them to be attached and removedat. pleasurewith aslight trouble. It will also be seen that the sheetsare so attached to the chains that they are reinforced along theirentire side edges, thus permitting them to be so secured to the chainsas to eliminate all undesirable wrinkles in the sheets.

What lv claim is-- l. .[n a traveling advertising device, endlesschains, sprockets around which the chains are caused to pass, anadvertising sheet and means for removably securing it to the chainscomprising lransversely-curved interlocked back and front plates carriedby the chains arranged to clamp the side edges of the sheet betweenthem.

2. In a traveling advertising device, endless chains, sprockets aroundwhich the chains are caused to pass, an advertisingsheet'and means forremovably securing it to the chains comprising transversely-curved frontplates having slots therein and transversely-curved back plates havinghooks arranged to be passed through the slots for interlocking the frontand back plates and clamping the side edges of the sheet between them.

3. In a traveling advertising device, endless chains, sprockets aroundwhich the chains are caused to pass, an advertisingsheet and means forremovably securing it to the chains comprising rods carried by thechains, transversely-curved back plates carried by the rods andtransversely-curved lront plates removably interlocked with the backplates arranged to clamp the side edges of the sheet thereto.

4. In a traveling advertising device, 'endless cl1ains,'sprockets aroundwhich the chains are caused to pass, an advertisingsheet and means forremovably securing 1t to the chain comprising rods removably attached tothe chains, transversely-curved back plates carried by the rods andtransversely-curved front plates interlocked with the back plates forclamping the side edges of the sheet thereto.

5. In a traveling advertising device, end

WILLIAM L. D. WRIGHT. Witnesses:

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